Tropical Community Fish for a large aquarium?
ByI am planning to set up a 150 Gallon Tropical community aquarium (1800mm x 670mm x 450mm). Along with a 2800 L/h extreme canister filter. I am interested in a peaceful community fish. I plan to stock the aquarium with the following.
A school of neon tetras (20 or more fish)
assortment of other tetras such as Congo tetras, bleeding heart tetras (20 fish or so)
few bala shark (6 maybe)
One or more red fin sharks (1)
zebra danios (10 or so)
clown loaches (6 or so)
khuli loach (2 or so)
one pair of Black Ghost Knife fish (2)
one male and one female betta splendance (2)
a few corydoras (not sure of the exact species) but the interesting ones (4)
a few dwarf gourami (6)
a few silver dollars (6)
a couple of siamese algae eaters (if I can find any in Sri Lanka)
Aquarium maintenanceis not a problem as I work from home and can spend a good amount of time tending the tank. I have also had very successful 8 foot tanks in the past. I currently have a large indoor pond in my courtyard where I have 3 iridiscent sharks, 2 large koi, and 2 6 inch giant gourami’s. I also have an aquarium with 3 baby red eared sliders.
I would like some advise on my new tank setup, do I have enough filtration? am I trying to over stock the new aquarium ? are the listed species appropriate ? or are there any other peaceful community species I should consider.
I really would also love to have a pair of discus fish, but since their requirements are very specific I don’t think my new aquarium would be appropriate. I might consider getting a discus aquarium in the future.
As I mentioned earlier, I live in the Sri Lankan hill country where temperatures are ideal for most tropical fish hence I don’t plan on getting an aquarium heater, however I might supplement the filtration with an in-tank filter as well.
Any advise would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Chozochild: Thank you very much for answering, I would like to send you a list of the fish I like via email, however your yahoo answers account doesn’t allow it.
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July 3rd, 2011 at 10:08 pm
ok….. this is definatley needs sorting through
neon tetras ok
other tetras ok as long as there is 5 specimens per species
balas ok BUT they willost likely tear through the neons and similar sized fish of that sort
sharks, just 1 or else theyll fight
zebra danios, ok but might become food
clown loaches, should be ok
khulis school so theyll need 5+ specimens, might also become food
knives are a no,1 alone needs 200 gallons
bettas will definatley not be happy in there
corys,again school so 5+ and the small ones might become food
gouramis ok
dollars ok but you cant get live plants, theyll eat them to the roots
stick to 1 please of the SAE
the koi for your pond sounds odd, woudnt they need a chiller if tropical fish need no heater in sri lanka?
dont know about the filtration, yeas 200+% overstocked, already listed food issues, and ill get to that
try substituting the small fish with say non-nippy barbs and the larger tetrs like congos.
discus for this a really big no no
you could do an extravegant amazon themed discus tank and it would look astounding here:
12 discus
2 chocolate chiclids
18 sterbai corys
1 stripped raphael catfish
12 hatchet fish
make sure to have soft sand for the bottom dwellers
or you could do a mish mosh community tank, send me an email on all the fish you like and ill compose a stocking list for you from it because id just fill that tank with rainbowfish lol.
July 3rd, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Everything looks good and well thought out. I would advise against discus fish for right now, they require warmer and cleaner water than the other fish. It is a good idea to have a separate discus fish tank later.